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9 - Web Scraping and APIs
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1 - Data Science Workflow and Toolkit
2 - Visualizing Data
3 - Data Tidying
4 - Advanced Visualizations and EDA
5 - Data Transformations
6 - Processing Strings and Text
7 - Working with Databases and SQL
8 - Advanced R Programming
9 - Web Scraping and APIs
10 - GIT and Collaboration
11 - Tidy Text and NLP
12 - Graphs and Graph Data
13 - Big Data and Cloud Computing
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9 - Web Scraping and APIs
Module 9 - Web Scraping and APIs
Learning Objectives
Understand and manipulate hierarchical/web Data Structures: JSON, HTML
Scraping websites with R
Ethics: Data Privacy Issues
Readings
RDS
(R for Data Science):
Chapters 23-24
OK Cupid Case Study
Videos
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower
Extracting Data from the Web Part I
Extracting Data from the Web Part II
8 - Advanced R Programming
10 - GIT and Collaboration